{"id":8788,"date":"2021-08-20T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T08:15:49","slug":"somalia-logs-136-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/08\/20\/somalia-logs-136-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia logs 136 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU —<\/strong> Somalia has confirmed 136 new COVID-19 cases in the last 48 hours, bringing the national tally to 16,535, the country\u2019s health ministry said Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

A total of 2,666 samples were tested across the country in the past 48 hours, and the latest confirmed cases were all local infections, the ministry said in a brief statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, five more deaths were recorded, taking the total death toll to 897, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ministry said 41 patients recovered from the virus bringing the total number of recoveries to 8,010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the new cases, 56 were female while 80 were male.<\/span><\/p>\n

sixty of the new cases were detected in the capital Mogadishu in and has been also detected in Puntland, Somaliland Galmudug, Jubaland and Southwest.<\/span><\/p>\n

On August 8, the horn of African country received more than 300,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine donated by the U.S. through the international COVAX facility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU — Somalia has confirmed 136 new COVID-19 cases in the last 48 hours, bringing the national tally to 16,535, the country\u2019s health ministry said Thursday. A total of 2,666 samples were tested across the country in the past 48 hours, and the latest confirmed cases were all local infections, the ministry said in a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t